Quotes from Patricia Briggs

Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don't start passing around the Marrok's advice as if he were Confucius.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

She hit us," the woman shrieked. That was the gist of it anyway. There were a lot of unladylike words that began with "F," with various "C" words thrown in for leavening. … "Ben's better," I murmured. "He's more creative when he swears." "He does it in that English accent, which is too cool.

Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle's shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn't exactly reassuring. "Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?" asked Kyle. Or else Ben's breath was really bad.

But that is the dual gift of love, isn't it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.

had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.

Feeling scared yet? Want to go somewhere safe?" "It won't help, will it? We'd just run into Godzilla or the Vampire from Hell. Trouble just follows you around." "Hey, Trouble. Let's find out what your mysterious Indian wanted us to know.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

Zack shook his head. "I am glad you aren't mine. You're going to be dead before you're forty." "No," rumbled my husband's soft deep voice from the hallway. "I'm going to be dead before she's forty.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.

Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

You are a sick, sick man," I told him. "Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.

Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch." "It was I who caught her," Adam said softly. "It took years.

No, really," I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?

Don't fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don't need to swallow you whole, I don't need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you're there.

There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. "Adam," I said.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.